[caption id="attachment_2606" align="alignright" width="678"] Not As Bad As You Think[/caption] Here’s good news for those of you who like an occasional tipple – or even those who drink regularly. The recent paper in the Lancet suggested any amount of alcohol is bad for you. Before that I had always comforted myself, as I sipped…
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Scaring Your Patient Sick
I seem to be hearing a lot of stories of people being stressed out because their provider has, unnecessarily, put the fear of God into them. [caption id="attachment_2594" align="alignnone" width="530"] Is He Putting the Fear of God in You?[/caption] Friend Jane (not her real name), a 69 year old diabetic was being checked out for…
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Doctors are “Radically and Catastrophically” Wrong About Benefit of Tests
[caption id="attachment_2589" align="alignright" width="585"] Gross Over Estimate of Usefulness[/caption] Great article in Washington Post on October 5th by Daniel Morgan, an epidemiologist at University of Maryland School of Medicine how doctors are “radically and catastrophically wrong” about how useful a medical test will be and how “many thousands of patients are diagnosed with diseases they…
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Redemption on Caroline Street
I’m tempted to lead with some bad joke, like Christian Zammas is exchanging hard drugs for soft. It is true. He has gone from using hard drugs to peddling soft one(s) - caffeine. [caption id="attachment_2584" align="alignnone" width="725"] This[/caption] All brought about by a sort of epiphany that has motivated him to gather up people with…
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